Dr. Christopher Ryan Maboloc has been selected as one of the 2024 ASAP Global Justice Program Fellow at Yale University. including other scholars from the United States, India, Kosovo, Pakistan, Germany, Paraguay, Kosovo, and the UK. According to its website, the Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP) is "utilizing scholarship to influence policy and public attitudes to poverty." ASAP fellows have the opportunity to work with top global scholars from Yale on their research topics and agenda. Dr. Thomas Pogge is the head of the Yale Global Justice Program.
By Menelito Mansueto (MSU-IIT) Christopher Ryan Maboloc is a Davao-based Filipino scholar known for his work in Social and Political Philosophy, Bioethics, Philippine Democracy, and the Philosophy of Technology. He is an Associate Professor at Ateneo de Davao University and a Visiting Professor at Silliman University. His body of work often engages with topics of social justice, structural inequality, and political ethics, particularly in the context of the Philippines. An Erasmus Mundus scholar, the author was trained in political party building and democratic governance at the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung in Bonn and Berlin, Germany. Dr. Maboloc is the author of two books, Radical Democracy in the Time of Duterte and The Question of Justice in Contemporary Liberal Theory. He is the editor of the two-volume Ethics in Contemporary Philippine Society, a collection of essays by Filipino scholars and academics, notably from Mindanao. He also authored several textbooks, including Et...